week 8 - Changes to Diorama -helmet

I wanted to give an impact to my scene and to help place Uncle Sam there, so I had the idea of possibly implying there were dead soldiers around his feet. Of course modelling the bodies would be too hard so I needed something to imply they were there. And I thought of having helmets as these are a good representative of the soldiers.

I first created a high poly of a helmet and then a low poly, I then baked it down and gave it a quick texture for alpha.

Here is a quick image I placed in after alpha to show how they looked in scene.

Another change to my scene before alpha is that I have decreased the size of the base. when I was looking at it I felt uncle Sam was lost in the environment and it wasn't emphasizing  him. So I decreased the size and moved the barbed wire, trees and bridges to help fit the scene. I am very pleased I made this decision as I feel it has given more of an impact on the scene and helped improve the emphasis of uncle Sam. 

Here is a comparison between the new smaller scene and the larger old scene. I really do feel the change of  size has improved the scene and brought it all a lot closer together.